Speaking of #archaeogaming, it's Saturday stream-day! @tshellstudio.bsky.social and I will be playing some Hades II and chatting about mythology, etymology, history, and more, 3 p.m. EST on my Twitch channel! #AncientBluesky 🏺 www.twitch.tv/zyllable

*taps sign* youtu.be/g6K2UnQiggk

"Prove the ai isnt sentient" is the same game christians play when they do the "prove god isnt real." The burden of proof is actually on y'all, because programmers have been able to dupe people with chat bot for decades. Its relatively easy to trick people into thinking somethings sentient.

Oh now THIS has my attention store.steampowered.com/app/4373620/...

Markwayne Mullin referred to the Trail of Tears as a "Volunteer Walk" so while I'm glad Kristi Noem got booted out, MAGA Triple H isn't much better

I'm delighted that Noem is out. OTOH, it is very typical of the Trump Admin misogyny that she is significantly out b/c of promiscuity & self-promotion, as well as animal cruelty, rather than, y'know, the mass torture & terror campaign, & also that she's being replaced w/ a very stupid white guy.

Here's the full #AncientBlackness thread in blog format opietasanimi.com/2025/03/08/a...

Gavin Newsom's pivot from denying Israel is committing genocide (less than two months ago) to now calling them an apartheid state isn't proof that he can be pushed in the right direction. It's proof that he "believes" whatever is advantageous for him at the time. He has no values.

A really good encapsulation of the BAFTA situation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55xt...

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Thanks so much for having me on, @lexie-henning.bsky.social! Really enjoyed talking games, Classics, and academia on the Ancient Office Hours podcast 😊🎮

Weekly online dance night with my friends. Me: Huh, I wonder if Cave Sex is a reference to Dido and Aeneas...? Friend: *puts on Lucretia, My Reflection* Me: Well, I guess we have performed our daily quota of thinking about the Roman Empire!

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

It drives me crazy that most people think that COVID-19 vaccines don't reduce transmission. They don't bring Reff <1, but the difference between spreading an infection to 2 people vs 1 person is huge at the scale of the population.

The situation with John Davidson at the BAFTAS is really not an either or kind of issue. The hurt that was undoubtedly caused by him ticcing the N-word is real and shouldn't be diminished or discarded. Equally he shouldn't be branded some kind of bigot for an involuntary action caused by disability

New short video is up. youtu.be/If5hoquQY9k

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Quote of the evening: I do not wish to get sideswiped by the horse trailer full of bagels.

I'm not streaming today because this year has been completely topsy-turvy. In fact, the only Saturday I can probably stream coming up is March 7. But! I've made a script breakthrough, so I think a few videos are on their way.

Not enough liberals understand that anti-leftism helped get us in this political mess.

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The kind of tech the left is excited about

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

I'm crying this is the funniest "Tam Lin" joke I've ever seen in the wild

#Massachusetts still has one sheriff, in Plymouth County, who is collaborating with ICE. The sheriff's agreement isn't a 287(g), but it allows him to jail men at the request of ICE and assist with transporting them out of state to concentration camps. #mapoli

I think we gotta at some point talk about how the secular disenfranchisement of women has contributed significantly to the “I submit to god and am helpless to meddle with his perfect vision that somehow includes my unvaxxed child getting measles”. It’s enforced helplessness given higher meaning.

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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Last chance to sign up for our Old English and/or Serbo-Croatian seminars! Meet with us + your fellow autodidacts and go through a grammar for 1 hour a week for 8 weeks on Zoom. $25 or free if you take a course with us this term. Click the link in my pinned post to sign up!

Yeah, how dare you embrace technology that helps people, while rejecting stuff designed to hurt people but make a few billionaires richer.

Over a decade ago now I got so fed up of “protect Western Civilisation” discourse that I stitched my opinion… with every resurgence of that discourse (including the current one) I agree with myself a bit more.

I'm told that there is a superstition that girls born during the year of the Fire Horse will grow to dominate or kill their husbands. Happy Klytemnaistra Year, folks! Take that power back! 🔥🐴

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

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Hope is not a plan. Direct action is. Join us on March 7th around the nation! www.standupforscience.net/march7 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Hey Ancient Gaming fans! You asked for it, and now it is here: actual ordered playlists broken down by game. Here's a link to my Heaven's Vault playthrough with commentary! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

😍 #AncientBluesky

oh my shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8z...

Patrons can now watch this! Premiere on Thursday for everyone else, so keep an eye out! www.patreon.com/posts/is-she...

I see today is a tap-the-sign kinda day. youtu.be/zhUcSBZZ3AE

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

For me one of the most disturbing aspects of the links between Epstein and academia is that the power and incentive structures that encouraged this entanglement are all still in place. Structurally, nothing has changed.

“The number of people in #Massachusetts contesting their detainments after masked men and women seize them off the streets has risen sharply over the past year … [with] a staggering 12,000% surge in habeas corpus petitions filed in Massachusetts federal courts in 2025.”

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

no stream today; my body is not ready

This conference is consistently amazing to see.

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

To every cis person glazing Gavin Newsom by insisting he’s “better for trans people” when the primaries haven’t even happened yet: Fuck you. Ignoring our warnings that Newsom is a transphobic billionaire puppet is bad enough but leveraging our struggles to defend him? Seriously, fuck you.

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